"OUT OF THE RUINS." AND "NOT QUITE A LADY" AT GAIETY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 72, 27 April 1929, Page 2

"OUT OF THE RUINS." AND "NOT QUITE A LADY" AT GAIETY.

Patrons • of the Gaiety De Luxe Theatre are ahout to be introduced to a new Ricliard Barthelmess. To-night thev will be presented to the First Nationnl star's newest feature pi'oduction "Out of the Ruins," a fast moving and dramatic screen version of

the well known short story hy Sir Philip Gibbs. 'In "Out of the Ruins" Barthelmess will be seen for the first time in years in a role strictly calling for love'scenes rather than character delineation. In "Out of the Ruins" he is not only given excellent histrionic opportunities, but is also given "a beautiful love story. Althougli this story is laid in France during and after tlie recent world war, the story is reallv one concerning love and its tribulations. Barthelmess, in the role of a French Blue Devil. deserts his legiment in order to be with his sweetlieart. His court martial as a deserter, his sentence to be sliot and what follows forms the unusual denouement of the Gibbs narrative. For the first time, Marian Nixon is seen as the heroine, and the combination of Barthelmess-Nixon is said to be of great romantio jiromise. The cast is of tlie usual Barthelmess standard, including such superlative players as Bodil Rosing Eugcne Pallette, Emile Chautard and Robert Frazer. What would you do if you were frustrated by a scheming mother from marrying tlie man you loved ? Slich is the remarkahle theme of tlie British International Picture "Not Quite A Lady." The star is /Mabel Poulton, that eharming vivacious personality whom critics have acclaimed as one of our finest stars. Her leading man is Maurice Braddell, a typical liandsome Englishman. Tliese'two young stars give a cliarniing study of youth's battle against the wits of a very aristocratic mother, whose wiles finally win over her son. Mabel Poulton as Ethel, the pretty young vivacious dancer, is refreshing to the eve, and her dclightful spontaneous dancing in a cabaret scene of a London night show is one of the outstanding features of the film. The storv concerns a young nian's infatnation for a Cabaret dancing girl to whom he becomes engaged without the knowledge of his proud and aristoeratic mother, who. when she learns of it, determines to prevent the marriage taking place. She invites Etlicl and her less refincd mother to her country house. There she plans all kinds of tliings calculated to humiliate Ethel and her mother, until eventually Ethel decides the best thing would be' to end the engagement, to the supremo jov of the boy's mother. Another_ sensational chapter of "Tarzan.the Alighty" and the latest topicals complete another of those greater attrac-tions always presented bv Thompson-Payne. Seats may _ he reserved at Hyde's or hy ringing 'phone 2551 or 3809. Booking 110 extra.